Barbara Brady is a Life Transitions Coach whom Annice and I met at a recent conference. She helps clients merge the logical, rational, left brain with their intuitive, creative, right brain resulting in more satisfying choices…

In our backyard shop/artroom, I am working on a mosaic for our Copper River cabin; a stylized salmon spawning scene that is played out year after year when the reds run aplenty, and we are blessed with the bounty of…

A new generation of stay-at-home moms are turning their backs on the corporate world & starting their own home-based businesses.



Jennifer Forest's fifth book, Work Women Want: Work at Home or go Part-Time, published by Artisan House, will be released on May 1st, 2013.



Work Women Want answers the questions asked by so many working women today, "Is it really possible to combine motherhood with a career and do both well?  Can I still make good money…

Many of you may have heard the disturbing revelation about "Wikipedia's Sexism Toward Female Novelists" as discussed in the NYTimes by Amanda Filipacchi.

Wikipedia users are taking women novelists off the list of "American Novelists" and reclassifying them as "American Women Novelists."

The writer and critic, as well as Vanity Fair columnist and…

Amy Brill is a writer and producer whose articles, essays, and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including Salon, Guernica, Redbook, Real Simple, Time Out New York, and The Common. A Pushcart Prize nominee and…

This is going to be a short post today because the events of this week have been so totally depressing and discouraging. The folks in Washington voted down background checks; there were the awful events in Boston and in West, Texas. It's enough to make you want to…

Until the reaction to hearing "You're just like a woman" is "You mean I'm clever, creative, flexible, dynamic and empathetic? Thanks!" we still have some work to do.

Girlfriends, let's start. Guys? You're welcome.

What do think SheWrites?

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My husband John and I had a great session with the therapist last night. I went to a writers conference on Saturday in San Francisco and had the opportunity to get feedback on my memoir pitch. I also pitched my memoir to a few agents, editors and publishers. I came back with a new plan to move forward with writing and publishing my memoir. We discussed how my day went on Saturday, mainly in terms of my ability to converse naturally with other people, as well as smile, introduce myself and…

One of the biggest myths about the human brain is that we only use 10 percent of its capacity. According to scientists, this is a myth that has been promoted over the years by the media and advertisers. If we believe that we really do only use 10 percent of our brain's capacity, it stands to reason that we could achieve much more throughout the course of our lives if we learned how to access the other 90 percent. Unfortunately, the 10 percent theory really is just a myth, according to Ed…

From an early age, because of a rare respiratory disease that makes breathing difficult, Laurie Edwards has spent weeks of her life in the hospital and endured dozens of surgeries. But the 32-year old teacher,…

When I was little I was as chubby as can be.  I know it’s hard for some people reading this to believe that, but yeah, I was the “fat kid,” and people weren’t afraid to point it out to me all the time.  I’ve always thought words are powerful, and especially the words you tell a kid.  

I would hear things like…

After all the changes in the weather over the last month, I can see signs of spring all over and there is no turning back now – well actually, our last frost date is the middle of May, so I’m thinking there will be some cold yet to come…but, the momentum has…

Multi-faceted, passionately aloof woman, lover of foreign accents (or bad…

I'm frustrated.  I really want to get more balance in my life--to have the life I imagine on a daily basis, where there is time in the afternoon for a cup of tea or time in the morning to sit and read the paper.  But I'm starting to…

Today's new edition of All Art Friday spotlights Art21's video series "100 Artists", Maria Popova's and Lisa Congdon's "The Reconstructionists" series about remarkable women, painter Robert Spellman, Valerie Theberg's mosaic mural at Smith Center's Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery in D.C., and a chapter from the PBS series "Creativity" (video included).

The roundup highlights exhibitions at Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts…

Ask an audience of 500 high-achieving women what isn't fitting for them and you will get a lot of answers - from jeans to life to some things that truly can't be printed! But over and over I hear recurring themes. We want to feel like our life…

GO WEST YOUNG WOMAN

This story is atypical of many groups who headed west in the earliest migrations. Getting a late start, a small group of wagons left Sapling Grove, Missouri on May 12, 1841. In the group were 35 men, 5 women and 10 children. about 20 miles west or Independence, MO., and not one of them had any notion of what lay ahead.

Of the women in the group three were married, one was a widow and one was a girl of marriageable age traveling with kin. Totally…

As another St. Patrick's Day approaches, I've been thinking about the issue of identity and writing. As in, can we ever separate our national, ethnic, gender or other identities from our work and books? 

In my case, I question if it's a blessing or a curse to be labeled “an Irish writer.” Is there a set of reader expectations for a book that hails from the Emerald Isle?…

Terry Gibson on November 23, 2012 — Leave a Comment